2. Foreshadowing
• Page 34
• ““Look! Look at it! Fire! A terrible fire! Mercy!
Oh that fire!” Some of the men pressed up
against the bars. There was nothing there;
only the darkness.”
• This hints at the future of the prisoners. The
fire hints at what becomes a crematorium that
kills Jews in a mass number.
3. Simile
• Page 97
• “He left then as he had come: like a wind-
swept shadow.
• This is a simile because it compares Rabbi
Eliahou’s son leaving to a wind-swept shadow
using the word “like”.
4. Simile
• Page 98
• “We pushed and jostled one another as if this
were the supreme refuge, the gateway to life.”
• This is a simile because it compares the
situation they are to the supreme refuge using
the word “as.”
5. Metaphor
• Page 100
• “This was the end – the end of the road.”
• This is a metaphor because it compares the
end of his life to the end of a road directly
(one is the other)
6. Metaphor
• Page 100
• “I tried to get rid of my invisible assassin”
• This is a metaphor because it compares
suffocation to being an invisible assassin
directly.
7. Metaphor
• Page 100
• Was it not dangerous to all your vigilance to
fail, even for a moment, when at any moment
death could pounce upon you.”
• This is a metaphor because it compares death
to some creature pouncing.
8. Simile
• Page 101
• “We all threw blankets over our shoulders, like
prayer shawls.”
• This is a simile because it compares the Jews
with the blankets over their shoulders to
prayer shawls using the word “like.”
